If bands were only the sum of their influences and references (not necessarily intentional), then Smohalla would be among the greatest bands on Earth. I can easily trace elements from BM/AGM luminaries as Arcturus (melodies), […]

When I grew up, I was a regular reader of the German Metalhammer-Magazine. I remember reading the editorials of Götz Kühnemund and always wondered how his living room might look like and what he kept […]

In an effort to expand agm’s sweep into the past, here is a review of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s freshman effort, “Grand Opening and Closing” (2001). There’s a lot to read in the liner notes. They […]

“In Glorious Times” churns, slithers, and grinds its way through a psychotic array of moods and sounds, with songs ranging from anguished paranoia to grimly amusing misanthropy. The experimental rock/metal collective Sleepytime Gorilla Museum carved […]

Is it why I waited for five long miserable years? Since mid-90s, SSOGE has always been among my favorite bands. Their unique blend of folk and doom metal has always amazed me if not charmed. […]

These Japanese masters of avantgarde black metal were always famous for astonishing their very own fanatics too and so far they gave us with all of their albums a masterpiece in his genre. I could […]

This EP marks a changing point for Sigh, a Japanese band with roots in black and doom metal and aspirations to psychedelia, orchestralia and everything in between. Here begins the play with structure and sound, […]

This was my first encounter with SIGH. And a formative one. An album wich starts deceivingly “normal”, but ends as a soundtrack to some drugged horror film. The title Track, at the same time the […]

I am going to spoil my own punchline this time by telling you why I label this release “Mirror Avantgarde”: Because it is not Avantgarde. And by that, it is so much Avantgarde it hurts. […]

Review’s Syllabus: If this review were a tree, I’d use a knife and cut ‘Love you’ into it. I have this theory that when listening to music you’ve never heard before the things that happened […]